We’ve now had over two years of the Green Investment Bank (GIB), enough time to evaluate how green its intervention in the waste sector has been. It’s no surprise that the answer is ‘not very’, but much more interesting to ask why.

Back in July 2014, the Environmental Audit Committee called on the GIB to support the circular economy, at the same time calling on government to ‘ensure that its policies for recovering resources and generating energy are aligned and are consistent with the waste hierarchy’.

I suppose that, case by case, the GIB can be said to be applying the waste hierarchy – it hasn’t invested in a landfill site yet. But its overall investment portfolio isn’t that of an organisation striving to apply the hierarchy as a priority.

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Following updated guidance suggesting black plastic be added to ‘not recycled’ lists, the BBC magazine programme has taken a look at the difficulty in sorting such plastic trays, as well as a potential solution.

In the second instalment of our analysis of the cosmetics and personal care industry, Rachel England examines its problem with packaging and considers measures being taken to turn the sector a more attractive shade of green